gǒu​yǎo​lǚ​dòng​bīn

to bite the hand that feeds you

狗咬吕洞宾 狗咬呂洞賓 gǒu​yǎo​lǚ​dòng​bīn
to bite the hand that feeds you
To mistake a person's good intentions for bad ones and turn against them; to fail to recognize someone's kindness. This is the first part of a two-part allegorical saying (xiehouyu), where the second part is 不识好人心 bù​shí​hǎo​rén​xīn.

Frequency

Written text
0.058 per million

Cross-References

See

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)